Chyrell D. Bellamy, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor at Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry at the Program for Recovery & Community Health (PRCH). She has experience as a frontline service provider, community educator and organizer, community and academic researcher, and a person with lived experience. At PRCH, she is the Director of Peer Services & Research and lends her expertise in 1) participatory research strategies, 2) research on sociocultural pathways of recovery from illness, 3) development of community-based psychosocial interventions, 4) training and research on peer support and community health work, and 5) qualitative research methods. Dr. Bellamy is the P.I. on a PCORI grant on increasing health care choices and health outcomes among people with serious mental illness.